intubate
English edit
Etymology edit
c. 1884, Back-formation from intubation.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
intubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.
- The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
- 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:
- you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to insert a tube into
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Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
intubate
- inflection of intubare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
intubate f pl
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Verb edit
intubate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of intubar combined with te